# Lead Hardware Design Validation Engineer

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join NVIDIA's groundbreaking team as a Lead Hardware Design Validation Engineer for our GPU, datacenter and automotive platforms in Santa Clara, CA! This role offers an outstanding opportunity to lead a team dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what's possible in computing technology.

As a Lead Hardware Design Validation Engineer, you will be responsible for owning end-to-end product validation from architecture/design phase, through bring-up to mass production. You will set strategies, define test plans, and track progress to ensure the product meets spec and ships successfully.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading and mentoring design validation engineers

- Guiding related validation teams (thermal, EMI, reliability, etc.) and partners (such as JDM) through the validation cycles

- Representing design validation in executive and cross-functional product reviews and debug forums

- Defining test plans across the full system based on product design

- Managing manufacturing test approaches and contributing to production troubleshooting and boosting yield

- Collaborating with and leading vendors and partners to complete validation activities

- Driving system-level debugging and root cause analysis on complex issues spanning silicon, board, system, signal integrity, firmware, and software

- Influencing product design through design review and validation/debug feedback

We are looking for a highly experienced and skilled individual who has a proven track record as a technical lead for a shipping hardware product. You should have strong system troubleshooting skills covering silicon, board, SI, firmware, OS, and applications.

If you are a motivated and results-driven individual who is passionate about pushing the boundaries of what's possible in computing technology, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

## Skills

### Required
- BS+ in EE/CE or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of related experience with a proven track record as a technical lead for a shipping hardware product
- Strong system troubleshooting skills covering silicon, board, SI, firmware, OS, and applications
- Hands-on experience with power validation, including PDN, power regulators, sequencing, telemetry, protection etc.
- Expertise in high-speed IO functionality and electrical validation, such as PCIe, SerDes, Ethernet, USB, or display
- Proficient in low-speed IO functionality and electrical validation, including I2C, SPI, UART, JTAG, SMBus, reference clock, etc.

### Nice to have
- Datacenter platform experience: high-density/rack-scale power, liquid cooling (CDU, manifolds, leak detection), manageability (BMC) etc.
- Proven capability in managing or technically leading a team of validation engineers
- Able and willing to travel internationally (primarily to Asia mfg sites such as Taiwan, China mainland etc.), up to 8% during NPI peak, to support builds

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